Beatty Pointe Village Bears

“Beatty Pointe Village in a retirement community located outside of Pittsburgh, PA. Many years ago there was a resident who lived here who started a Teddy Bear project. She met with residents and they made teddy bears and donated them to the local hospital. Since then she has passed away and there were a few residents who are still living here who had helped with the project. After starting here as the activities coordinator in October of 2014, I had a few residents ask if we could start the Teddy Bear Project again. It wasn’t until a year later in October of 2015 when a local nurse reached out to me and said “We just gave our last teddy bear to a child in the ER. Are you still making them? We would love to have more!” Well that just tugged too hard on my heart strings so we rounded up some ladies and kick started the Teddy Bear Project in November of 2015. We meet once a week as a group to work on cutting, sewing, and stuffing the teddy bears.” Melanie Cherry